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Originally Posted by efra
I really hope Keith could answer to me these 2 questions
What are the reasons behind:
1) Tabs being removed
2) Why the cash games now are in gray font and not in their normal green?
1) Tabs were removed as part of an ongoing effort to streamline the software and make our development and maintenance more efficient. Maintaining two independent and incompatible lobby control schemes is very expensive. Every time we want to add a new feature or establish a new class of filters, we have to do the design in both schemes, frequently compromising what we want to accomplish in one scheme in order to accommodate the restrictions in the other. Then we have to make code changes to both schemes. Then both schemes have to be independently QA'd. Any changes in other areas of the client still have to be QA'd against both schemes in case there are hidden dependencies. Bug investigations take longer because they have to look in both areas of code.
If one of the schemes is more powerful, more flexible and more extensible (i.e. easier to extend and expand the capabilities), and can do things the other scheme can't, then it doesn't make sense to maintain both.
Furthermore, if one of the schemes is used by the vast majority of players and the other has a very small user base that is getting smaller over time, then it does not make sense to maintain both.
When both the greater capabilities and vastly larger user base align with one scheme (i.e. the PS7 Filters), then the logic for removing the less-capable / lower usage scheme (i.e. PS6 Tabs) is overwhelming.
Even so, it was a decision we did not take lightly, as we knew the impact would be felt by some of our oldest and most loyal players. We delayed making this change long past when logic suggested we should do it, and we posted back in January that this change was coming so that Tabs users could familiarize themselves with how the PS7 Filters worked before the change was permanently thrust upon them.
2) Because of the way PS6 Tabs worked, the Play Money games were mixed in with the Real Money games in the Cash Games tab, so to distinguish between them we showed the RM games in green font, the PM in gray font. With the PS7 Filters, the distinction comes from the RM/PM switch in the upper right of the top row, so you only see all RM games or only all PM games, depending on the setting of that switch.